VII-04: Splendor of microcosm, or matter is composed by fractal
structures at all his levels.

VII-05: If I tell you that there are witches and elephants in the
sky...the splendor of macrocosm.

VII-06: See with the eye of the heart - Great paintings.

Part 1 : To see the
Mother-Source present in all things

"Salvation of Humans" is a
site that wakes up your imagination. (Ampéwi Nunpa)

Since the 18th
nov 2001 you are th
visit of sens-de-la-vie.com.

Page created on
January 14, 2003. And translated by Jorge Da Costa .

French version.
Version en Castellano

To see

the
Mother-Source

present in all
things.

SENS-DE-LA-VIE.com

The page of the
Eternal Children

Free your soul
from the conditioning of all powers.

The purest marvels
are just before our eyes

in the most humble
things and beings.

Let's learn together
how to see them.

In these
times of confusion where the values of the industrial society have
filled the hearts with the longing for the products of the
ubiquitous advertisements, and where - as a result of this pervert
conditioning - humans place their desires in consuming and their
ambitions in possessing, since their early childhood. And I am
really sad to observe that nowadays youth's main interests in life
are television and video games: in other words they live in a
virtual world that cuts them from the reality and their own
imagination.

I have
chance to be born poor and to grow up in the countryside, and I
can assure you that the lack of television and its games didn't
deprive us at all.

We
had a very beautiful childhood spending our free time in the woods
and running through the fields, going from wonder to wonder,
discovering the most simple things, like those we can find in
nature when the look and the spirit are available.

Observing small
birds, plants, and insects - more common than the large wild
animals - filled our hearts with admiration and made us aware of
the sense of the Sacred, that spontaneously gushes out from the
contemplation of Beauty and the complexity of Life.

In order to share
this look with you, I've chosen one single subject, which is an
abundant insect anywhere there is water :

The
Dragonfly

Here illustrated by MC Marin

Where to see them
?

The
dragonfly is an insect of the Odonates family.

And they have
very close relatives : the damselflies. The damselfly have two
pairs of wings of the same size and fly slower.There are
about 4900 species of dragonflies and damselflies on
earth.The
largest one lived at the Carboniferous period and it's wings were
60cm (~24 inches) wingspan.

Where to see them
? easy answer : you can see them anywhere where there is calm
water, except during winter !

wNext
time you go on vacation, don't forget to take a pair
binoculars with you, or even a camera equipped for
micro-photography; Then you just have to find a nice pond,
like the one above. There are a lot, except in deserts and
extreme climates. It's the most beautiful habitat of the
dragonfly and its cousin, the damselfly.

They are easy
to observe,

and if you see some
of them landed on flowers, like the one below,

do not deduce that
it is gathering nectar!

because the
dragonfly is a fearsome carnivore, an eagle at its scale !

What do
dragonflies have that is so special ?

This insect is
really worth while we linger over it... a mass of characteristics
distinguish it from others, making it a very efficient flying
predator. Lets talk about its wings: very broad, they can move
independently one from another... This muscular control makes that
the dragonfly can fly backwards, sideways, or forward at the top
speed of 54 km/h (~33.6 mph)... and instantly stop dead. Their
wing flappings range from 20 to 90 per second, which is a huge
advantage when hunting.

The
dragonfly's Wings: you can observe the fineness and the
complexity of the veins above the anterior and below the
posterior wings.

Insects' wings
are carried by the thoracic longitudinal body segments 2 and 3
(respectively the mesothorax and the metathorax). They are missing
in the young ones, the nymphas (where sometimes they exist but
without being functional).

They are made of
2 cuticular layers assembled and supported by a group of nerves.
The main ones contain tracheas, hemolymph and nerve cells.

At the moment of
the imaginal molt, wings are soft and crumpled. Then nerves are
quickly filled up with hemolymph which allows to spread the wings
before the cuticle hardens.

As for the legs
or the buccal system, the wings show off a very developped
specialization that leads to great differences in their form and
use. Thus, the aptitude for the fast and long-term flight goes
with an identical developpement of the wings.

If you were
an insect, you would be terribly afraid of dragonflies !

And if it flied
towards you, here is how would look this stunning Nature's
Supercopter.

The head is a
masterpiece of complexity: placed on a "vertical" neck, it's used
like a gyroscope in order to keep the insect in an optimum
position for flight, informing it about it's vertical position.
This is possible because of sensorial hair placed at the base of
the neck. These hairs inform then the wing's muscles to take back
the insect to an horizontal position.

Who are the
Dragonfly's Predators?

Above all :
Humans who destroy its environnement.
Half of the
Earth's humid zones are lost by the fault of humans, who directly
destroy them with their own pollution: we are not able to estimate
the number of insect species that have become extincted or
affected by the use of insecticides, and/or the deterioration of
the soil and water.

Otherwise,
dragonflies often end up their lives as shown on the picture
above: a bad situation for the insect, but good for the
bird.

Show us dragonflies
!

Yes,
but did you know that its eyes are made of 30,000 facets that
allow it to detect and track down its preys very easily... and
then break the prey's shell with its rock-solid mandibles.

Admire the perfect
wings transparency of this one !

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And this great
harmony of colors!

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Its Grace and
Airiness!

wAnd
the unbelievable position of its wings that allows the
dragonfly any possible acrobatics!

wAnd
this one's Shimmering!

Dragonflies are so beautiful!

xThis
one is not a real one, it's just to make you
laugh.

x This
one symbolize the harmony of Crystal and Scarlet!

wLook
at the Power of this litte body of light!

Aren't they more beautiful
than this techno-dragonfly ?

or than this "Man Dragonfly" -
Photos by Michel Pilon - Montréal (Canada)

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" Man will never equal a
simple dragonfly ! "

states Alice in the Wonderful
Garden.

One reader's
reaction:

"Wonderful page! What a magnific apologia of the Nature! I
immediately sent it to my 2 kids to show them what I had so
much difficulties to explain them each time I turned off the
television" . Hansi.
- Do the
same!

Everything in the nature is as
somptuous as the famous dolphins,

even a single blade of grass:
you just need to know how to observe it.

Photo F.
Gilboux

This month's most
enchanting picture.

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Numpa

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